Cinema 4D Release 18 Complete Feature List

The key attributes for Quaternion Rotations have a new option for Quaternion Interpolation types. The user can choose between different interpolation presets there.

Constraints workflow

Parent Constraint

The new "Local Offset" attributes field presents the internal offset that the constrained object will have with the "parent" targets

New Interactive Transform checkbox allowing the user to interactively edit the constrained parameters

New Record button provides an easy way to keyframe the Local Offset and Strength values of the targets

Negative scales and constraints are now supported

New Parent Constraint parameters

"Local Offset" are animatable parameters representing the offset the target (parent) has from the constrained object (child)

"Interactive Local Offset" is a checkbox that enables the user to interactively adjust constrained parameters and have the Local Offsets update to the new adjustments

"Auto-Reset (Legacy)" is the Auto-Reset mode which is now implemented as a Legacy mode, for compatibility reasons with old scenes

"Update Local Offsets" is a new cycle button that will allow to update the Local Offsets based on the constrained object's coordinates, or setting one of the Targets as a new main target. This will allow for a seamless transition to that target.

"Record Optimized" is new cycle button which allows recording all the Weights and Local Transforms of all the Targets, in an optimized way

The new Shift Priority Tag can be used to shift priority values of expressions

The "Breakdown Color" option in the keyframe attributes of the Timeline now allows setting an alternative color for keyframes

The Timeline's baking function is now able to bake an Alembic object to native PLA animation

EXCHANGE

Alembic

Alembic module is now based on SDK 1.5.8.

Support for vertex colors was added

The internal tags which represent the data streamed from *.abc files are exposed to the user on the Alembic generator now

There now is a placeholder tag for the Subdivision Surface Weight tag

The subdivision method is now written to and read from the Alembic SubD scheme

Alembic generator has a new option for Creases and Corners used for weights of SDS objects

Alembic generator has a new value to be able to scale SDS weights

New Import options

"Color Maps" option allows color information (RGB and RGBA) to be imported and Vertex Color tags to be created

Importing "Points" with "As Polygon Object" reads the color (RGB or RGBA) property and creates a Vertex Color tag per point mode for it